Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Republican Nelson Rockefeller confronted overwhelming Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, which should have spelled trouble for him. It only meant more trouble for the Democrats, who just could not seem to get the knack of running things after 30 years in the minority. With the new session nearly a week old, they had not even been able to elect their own leadership, the result of a simmering fight for control of state Democratic machinery between New York's Mayor Robert Wagner and Freshman U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy. For his part, Rockefeller just sat back...
...gift for being mischievously amusing and touchingly wistful at the same time, and she displays it again here. Since he is smarmy, rubber-legged, and given to fixed, fatuous grins, Lou Antonio is a more difficult taste to acquire. With comedies like Barefoot in the Park, Any Wednesday, The Knack, Luv and The Owl and the Pussycat in competition, a play like C. B. is not an also-ran but a never-walked...
...such talents. His father, A. W. Moursund Jr., had developed ranch holdings in Blanco County, founded Johnson City State Bank (it survived the Depression but closed in the late '30s), and married Mary Frances Stribling. The Striblings, largely through Mary's mother, Lurania, who had a knack for acquiring land and stocking it profitably with cattle, sheep and goats, owned some 100,000 acres near the Pedernales River. Lurania was once asked how much land she thought was "enough." "Just what's mine," she said, "and that which joins mine...
...waved, he'll wave it. If he doesn't have an opinion, he'll get one while you are waiting. When everyone knows it is safer to let the dust settle first, often as not he is helping to create the dust. He has the uncanny knack 99% of the time of being found, when the dust does settle, on the side of the saints. The 1% represents, of course, his vote for Goldwater...
...guiding precepts. "Let the laughs go and play the people," he says. When he makes a mistake, he is the first to acknowledge it. "Mike is the best director I've ever worked with, and that includes Gielgud and Peter Brook," says Brian Bedford of The Knack. "Mike has the patience to wait until the part slowly emerges. I'm sure he does guide you, but so subtly you think everything comes from within yourself...